Seemed pretty successful to me: "Adobe buys Macromedia for $3.4bn" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4456895.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4456895

Seemed pretty successful to me: "Adobe buys Macromedia for $3.4bn" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4456895.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4456895.stm "The individual products within the Studio solution also remained solid, with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX standing as the company's largest individual product ... The MX family also continued to receive industry accolades." http://www.adobe.com/macromedia/ir/macr/news/2004/jul23_q104_results.html http://www.adobe.com/macromedia/ir/macr/news/2004/jul23_q104_results.html "to make an impressive AJAX page requires a ridiculous amount of not very well structured code" ... ", do not invest in a startup that plans to make a straight IDE play." Why wouldn't an AJAX IDE make a good investment? People would be queuing up to buy it if making impressive AJAX pages is as hard as you say it is.